Dear Fifth Grade Parents,
Next Friday, October 18th, 5A will be leading the Prayer Service for the school. It will be held in the school hall and it starts at 8:40am. You are welcome to come in at 8:30am and grab a seat in the chairs on either side of the school hall. I will pass out the reading parts on Monday to the students. We will be practicing next week during class and I encourage them to practice at home as well!
Reminders:
- Oct 16th – Parents Club (7pm)
- Oct 18th – 5A Leads Prayer Service 8:40am School Hall & Mid-Triester Reports
- Oct 22nd – Picture Retakes
- Nov 1st – All Saints Mass
- Nov 1st – 8th Grade Pizza Lunch
- Nov 8th – No School, Teacher-in-Service
- Nov 11th – No School, No BASE
The following is a curriculum update for the week of October 14 – 18, 2024:
Religion –
This week we completed our grade 5 Circle of Grace Lesson. Please read the Circle of Grace letter I have attached to this email.
Next week we will be getting ready to lead the Friday prayer service. We will also be finishing up the Chapter 2 study Guide. In this chapter we are exploring the sense of longing we all feel as a part of the desire God put in our hearts to be truly happy with Him. We will examine the search for happiness through the Gospel account of the Woman at the Well. We will also be taking a deeper look at grace as a free, loving gift of participation in the life of the Holy Trinity. Looking ahead the test for Chapter 2 will be on Tuesday 10/22.
Second Step
Next week we will begin the Bullying Prevention Unit.
Introductory Lesson: Class Rules.
When class norms clearly support safe, respectful, and responsible behavior, bullying is less likely to happen. This lesson helps reinforce those norms by connecting words and actions to class rules and expectations for social and learning behavior. The Building a Positive Classroom Climate Activities found on the Following Through Cards also promote a positive classroom climate, which can help prevent bullying.
Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Identify actions and words that are respectful and responsible
- Demonstrate ways to be respectful and responsible
Lesson Concepts
- Being a respectful student helps everyone stay safe and be better learners.
- Being a responsible student helps create a calm, focused classroom climate where everyone can learn.
Math – Ms. Semandiris
Monday (10/14) Ch. 2 Lesson 10, Multiply by Two-Digit Numbers
Tuesday (10/15) Ch. 2 L. 10 Continued
Wednesday (10/16) Ch. 2 Fluency Practice
Thursday (10/17) Chapter 2 Review
Friday (10/18) Chapter 2 Pretest
Monday (10/21) Chapter 2 Test
Math-Ms. McGuigan
Monday (10/14) Ch 3 Lesson 1 Relate Division to Multiplication
Tuesday (10/15) Ch 3 Lesson 2 Hands On Division Models
Wednesday (10/16) Ch. 3 Lesson 3 Divide by 1 Digit Divisor
Thursday (10/17) Ch. 3 Lesson 4 Division Patterns
Friday (10/18) Mid Chapter Quiz
Math (5th) – Mrs. Heuer
Monday (10/14) Unit 2 Test
Tuesday (10/15) 3.1 GCF
Wednesday (10/16) 3.2 Simplest Form + test corrections
Thursday (10/17) 3.3 Add Like Fractions
Friday (10/18) 3.4 Subtract Like Fractions
Science
Students will be continuing the unit on Environmental Engineering. Students will be doing hands-on activities finding pH levels of a town and discussing possible sources of pollution, and modeling a food web as a class to think about how pollution and environmental changes can influence entire ecosystems.
Social Studies
Next week we will be moving on to Lesson 2, Native Americans and Their Land. In this lesson we will explore 4 different environments. Students will be taking a closer look at the Inuit People. They will be preparing for an Act-it-Out which will answer questions about how they adapted to the environment they lived in. We will work in class to answer the questions for the Act-it-out and they will be on Google Classroom as an assignment. We will aim to have the Act-it-Out be on Monday 10/21. The test for this Chapter will be on Friday 10/25 and the study guide will be posted on Google Classroom on 10 18.
Social Studies
- Trace the migration routes of Native Americans into North America.
- Summarize key features of four environments.
- Identify ways in which the Inuits adapted to their Arctic environment.
Language Arts
- Interpret images through an act-it-out. (speaking and listening)
ELA – TBD – Check the Matrix on Monday